operation of a school under this article shall continue to serve
the entire attendance boundary of the school. Parents
petitioning to establish a public charter under this article do
not need signatures from another party.
(d) Prohibition.--If the school turnaround or restart option
to be implemented is the conversion of the school to a public
charter school, the public charter operator selected to operate
the school may not have a school in its portfolio that has been
under its control for at least five years and has performed
in the bottom 50% of schools in this Commonwealth, as measured
by the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment.
(e) Specific school turnaround or restart option. --The
school district shall adopt and implement the specific school
turnaround option or restart option selected by parents in the
petition unless the school district makes a finding, in writing
and presented at a public meeting, that it is logistically
impossible to implement the option. In this case, the school
district shall state which of the other school turnaround
options or restart options, which must include one of the
turnaround options or the conversion of the school to a public
charter school, it will implement within the time frame under
this section. If the school district finds that the school
turnaround option or restart option selected by parents is
logistically impossible, it shall submit both the school
turnaround option or restart option selected by parents and the
turnaround option or restart option selected by the school
district to the department. If, after review, the department
determines that the school turnaround option or restart option
selected by parents is logistically possible for the school
district to implement, the department shall require the school
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